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Bridge Books - Stories / Hand Collections / Fiction

	Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
	Alex Adamson and Harry Smith
	The third installment about bridge in the Land of Oz, following "If I Only Had a Heart" and "Bridge Over the Rainbow." A good mix of moderately hard play problems, dressed up with a story about Dorothy and the Tin Man competing to earn the most masterpoints in a year.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	I Love This Game
	Sabine Auken
	Hear the top-ranked woman player in the world describe her favourite moments in her bridge career, and share her philosophy of the game. This is my personal favorite of all the expert biographies on the market.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Arrow Through the Heart
	David Bird
	Short stories about Robin Hood and his Merry Men playing bridge against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The reading is lighthearted and the hands are accessible to bridge players of any ability. I especially enjoyed the episodes where a young pageboy is allowed to play bridge against his mentor Robin for the first time.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Robin Hood's Hold-up
	David Bird
	Another fun novel about the misadventures of Robin Hood and his friends (and enemies) at the bridge table.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Saints and Sinners: the St. Titus Bridge Challenge
	David Bird and Tim Bourke
	More short stories from David Bird's ever-frustrated Abbot. Each story is preceded by a quick "what would you have done?" quiz box, for you to test your wits against the monks. The hands run the gamut from simple good sense to very deep analysis of the opponents' likely holdings.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Big Deal: a Memoir from the Wonderful World of Bridge
	Augie Boehm
	Stories of Augie Boehm's early days as a bridge teacher and pro in New York City. A mixture of stories, history of the game, commentary, and memorable hands.
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Great Hands I Wish I Had Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge at the Edge
	Boye Brogeland
	Read the biography of Norway's star player and learn his favorite conventions and declarer-play tips. The man who spearheaded the huge bridge cheating busts of 2015 and brought down Fisher-Schwartz and Fantoni-Nunes!
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Out of Hand, Out of Mind
	Bill Buttle
	A collection of Bill Buttle's cartoons about the foibles of bridge players.
	$12.95		By special order only

	Bridge with Another Perfect Partner
	John Carruthers
	Do you have one of those partners who always knows exactly what you did wrong, but never seems to admit to making any mistakes himself? A novel about the trials and tribulations of playing with a know-it-all partner. (And a homage to a long out-of-print P.F. Saunders book on the same theme, published in the UK in the 1970s.)
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bachelor Bridge
	Simon Cocheme and David Bird
	A reprint of a classic bridge novel, or rather, series of short stories: our hero attempts to partner 26 different women, from A to Z, at the bridge table and away from it... and generally makes a fool of himself both places.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge With a Twist
	Simon Cocheme
	This series of short stories covers the history of bridge, gives some humorous advice about the game, and is fun light entertainment. Easy to read one short chapter, easy to read the whole thing in one sitting!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Right Through the Pack
	Robert Darvas and Norman de Vere Hart
	A collection of fifty-two deals, one in which each card in the deck is the key to the whole hand. People have written lots of stories about cards -- but this is a story told by the cards looking up at the people holding them. A delightful fairy-tale-like atmosphere, achieved by looking at the familiar from an unfamiliar angle without having to resort to a completely made-up "Mollo's Menagerie" type world.
	$14.95		By special order only

	It's All in the Game: the Fun Side of Winning Bridge
	Robert Ewen and Jeff Rubens
	A collection of humorous stories, mostly from the early days of the Bridge World, reprinted in this new large-format volume.
	$23.95		By special order only

	Can You Win the USBC Team Trials 2013?
	Matthias Felmy
	A selection of bidding, play, and defense problems that arose on actual hands in the US international team trials, as analyzed by a rising German star. You can just play along and keep score, rating your plays against what was done at the table, or you can dig deep into the mind of an expert by reading the full analysis of each deal.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Elizabeth Flynn
	The Eight of Clubs Was Good? Comfort Food for the Bridge Soul
	A mixture of stories about the trials of new bridge players, and recipes recommended for your next bridge party.
	$12.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge With the Blue Team
	Pietro Forquet
	Reprint (and translation into English) of Forquet's classic book, a collection of the Italian Blue Team's greatest hands from their many years dominating the world championships. Also includes a summary of the 3 bidding systems used by the team.
	$29.99		By special order only

	I Shot My Bridge Partner
	Matthew Granovetter
	Second in Granovetter's bridge murder mystery trilogy.
	$14.95		By special order only

	Murder at the Bridge Table
	Matthew Granovetter
	Volume I of the Bridge Team Murders. A mystery novel set at a bridge championship.
	$14.95		By special order only

	Battling the Best: My Journey Through the 2014 Reisinger
	Sartaj Hans
	The author describes in detail his experience playing in the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams, the toughest event in the North American tournament calendar. He covers interesting bidding, defense, and declarer play problems, that arose at his table, as well as sharing the thoughts than ran through his mind at different stages of the contest. A great way to be immersed in the tournament experience for those of us who haven't been there ourselves yet!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridging Two World
	Martin Hoffman
	Martin's life story, from concentration camp survivor to European bridge pro and teacher. Emphasis on the history and story, rather than on individual memorable deals.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	For Love or Money: the Life of a Bridge Journalist
	Mark Horton
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	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Misbid These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	Another sequel to Mark's Misplay These Hands With Me and Misdefend These Hands With Me, showcasing places where even the experts suffered lapses in judgment. Can you do better?
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You
	Cathy Hunsberger
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	$12.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Master of Bridge Psychology: Inside the Remarkable Mind of Peter Fredin
	Jeppe Juhl
	A biography of Swedish rising star Peter Fredin, highlighting hands against world class competition where psychology mattered more than the simple mechanics of bridge.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Gamesman Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A rarely seen early Kantar book, from way back in 1972. The story of a beginner named Stanley's journey to becoming a strong bridge player. Is it a bridge novel, or a lesson series taught with the classic Kantar wit sprinkled through it from beginning to end?
	$7.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Take All Your Chances at Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A collection of declarer-play problems, emphasizing the theme of identifying several possible ways of making your contract and finding the plan that maximizes your odds.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Reprinted and retitled edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Philosopher 3
	James Kauder
	Volume 3 of Jimmy Kauder's advice on advanced declarer play. Humorous stories about hands where it pays to not just take the first line you see.
	$22.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Philosopher 4
	James Kauder
	Volume 4 of Jimmy Kauder's advice on advanced declarer play. Humorous stories about hands where it pays to not just take the first line you see.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Persistent Human Bridge Errors
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	Further tales of Chthonic, the perfect bridge-playing computer, and the trouble he has making sense of his human partners, teammates, and opponents. Not just stories - each story has a moral, a lesson about mistakes mere mortals frequently make at the table. Lots of material that didn't appear in The Bridge World!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Principle of Restricted Talent
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	The adventures of a wisecracking bridge-playing robot and his inventors. Logical solutions to dozens of very difficult cardplay and defense problems, mixed into a series of short stories. One of the best recent contributions to the "bridge novel" genre.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Play a Swiss Teams of Four With Mike Lawrence
	Mike Lawrence
	Kibitz Mike Lawrence through a series of seven IMP matches. Hear his thought process on each deal. See how he estimates whether he is ahead or behind in each match, and how this influences his play on the last couple hands of each match.
	$9.95		By special order only

	Richelieu Plays Bridge
	Robert MacKinnon
	Cardinal Richelieu rises to the top of the Renaissance-era French court... with the help of his card-playing skills, not just political acumen, in this bridge novel.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Around the World in 80 Hands
	Zia Mahmood and David Burn
	A collection of Zia's favorite hands, drawn from world championships, high-stakes money bridge games, and other random places the world over.
	$16.95		By special order only

	Bridge My Way
	Zia Mahmood
	Zia's bridge autobiography. Favorite hands and stories from club games and tournaments all around the world.
	$12.95		By special order only

	Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats : A Newcomer's Journey into the World of Bridge
	Edward McPherson
	A (former) non-bridge-player journals his entry into the exciting world of duplicate bridge, starting from his first beginner's lesson at the Manhattan Bridge Club on up to his attendance at the NABC. Intended for general audiences, but of interest to bridge players. A great gift for your non-bridge-playing friends and relatives this Christmas!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge in the Menagerie
	Victor Mollo
	Long-awaited reprint of the classic Mollo novel, "read by every bridge player over the age of 40," according to the reviews on the dust jacket.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Swings and Arrows
	Victor Mollo and Mark Horton
	A collection of Mollo's short stories about the Menagerie characters, harvested from the various magazines where the articles originally appeared, and reprinted here. One of three such compilations Master Point Press has recently released.
	$19,95		Available now and ready to ship

	Back Through the Pack
	Julian Pottage
	An homage to Robert Darvas's Right Through the Pack. Each of the 52 cards in the deck narrates two favorite deals in which the key play involves that card. SHIPPING NOTE: Large format book, will not fit in a USPS flat-rate envelope.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Double Elimination: A Bridge Mystery
	Jim Priebe
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	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Takeout Double: A Bridge Mystery
	Jim Priebe
	A novel about a murdered tournament bridge player and the police lieutenant assigned to solve it. "A complex tangle of jealousy, ambition, sex, and deceit amongst people to whom he knows bridge is far more than just a game."
	$17.95		By special order only

	Bridge at the Top: Behind the Screens
	Samantha Punch
	Samantha Punch is a sociologist studying bridge players. This book is a collection of her interviews with the world's top players, giving us a peek into how the experts cope with the challenges of life as a bridge pro.
	$22.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Story of an Accusation
	Terence Reese
	Terence Reese's account, in his own words, of how the investigation of his alleged cheating at the 1965 Buenos Aires world championship unfolded. Compare with Alan Truscott's The Great Bridge Scandal written from the accuser's point of view. Some say that whichever of these two books you read first will determine whether you believe Reese and Schapiro were guilty or not.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge: Common Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
	Andrew Robson
	A total of 172 of Andrew Robson's newspaper column hands, organized by topic and with a short easy-to-remember tip at the end of each one.
	$17.99		By special order only

	The Naked Bridge Player and Other Stories
	David Silver
	Parodies of novels and films, with accompanying bridge hands. Some are standalone stories but most are further adventures of the characters introduced in David Silver's earlier novels.
	$17.95		By special order only

	Tales Out of School
	David Silver
	A fascinating bridge novel, introducing the bumbling Professor Silver, the students who surpass his own abilities, and the partners he drives to distraction, drink, and beyond. The first novel in the Silver series, introducing his classic ideas like the Certainty Principle.
	$9.95		By special order only

	Cut for Partners
	S. J. Simon
	Sequel to Simon's classic "Why You Lose at Bridge." Three rubbers of bridge played by Mrs. Guggenheim, the Unlucky Expert, and Futile Willie, with commentary on every bid and play from Simon.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Enterprising Bridge Tales: the Original Stories
	Marc Smith
	A novel about "bridge in the 24th century" on the Starship Enterprice. Star Trek fan fiction mixed with challenging bridge deals.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Enterprising Bridge Tales: the Next Generation
	Marc Smith
	A second novel about "bridge in the 24th century" in the Star Trek world. Federation crew members do battle at the bridge table with Ferengis, Romulans, and the Borg.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play Bridge with your Spouse and Survive
	Roselyn Teukolsky
	It really IS possible to have a successful partnership with your spouse -- in fact there are several good reasons why that can be an ideal situation for you! Part autobiography, part humor, part bridge textbook, and part marriage counselor. A look at how a bridge partnership evolves as the people involved date, marry, have children, and cope with midlife crises. (And yes, the book has a happy ending!)
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge at the Breakfast Table
	Paul Thurston
	Selected articles from Paul Thurston's daily National Post column. A mixture of bidding and play advice, and simply presenting curious deals for your reading enjoyment.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Out of School
	Bill Townsend
	A novel, weaving together the lives of four marginally competent schoolteachers, a corrupt bridge federation official, and a blackmailed lawyer. Mixed in with lots of clever declarer play and defense problems, of course.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	The Great Bridge Scandal: the Most Famous Cheating Case in the History of the Game
	Alan Truscott
	A bridge journalist's firsthand account of discovering that Boris Schapiro and Terence Reese appeared to be using hand signals in the 1965 world championships. The story of the American team's investigations and the subsequent World Bridge Federation hearing. Compare with the same story told from the other side's point of view in Reese's Story of an Accusation.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The New York Times Bridge Book
	Alan Truscott
	Subtitle: An anecdotal history of the development, personalities, and strategies of the world's most popular card game.
	$13.95		By special order only

	Bridge's First Hippie
	Peter Weichsel
	Peter Weichsel's autobiography, from learning to play bridge in school (and the impact it had on his grades) to his world championship appearances. His partner, Alan Sontag, wrote a hilarious book 40 years ago, "The Bridge Bum", and here we have a companion volume!
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge at the Enigma Club
	Peter Winkler
	A novel that introduces the idea of encrypted bids and signals at the table. These high-powered conventions aren't legal in most live games, but they make for fascinating theory and a great mystery story!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How Not to Play Bridge
	Mike Dorn Wiss
	Not quite the long-awaited sequel to "Shadow in the Bridge World," but a delightful tale nonetheless: the collected ravings of a stuffy old professor, teaching you all the wrong ways to play.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

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